Colin – £45 film gets wide release

Just finishing a short film with The Hatch called Vacuum – the closing motion graphics credits are up on this site.   Started to turn attention to writing a feature that could be filmed for very little money.  The zombie film Colin has been grabbing the headlines lately and I hope it does well but the notion that it cost £45 is clever marketing ploy rather than the truth.  Check out the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkJZ3FlOWeM.  It took them 18 months to make and it looks pretty good (it’s taken us a year to make Vacuum which is 10 minutes long so hats off to them!).  Puts it in the same canon as Blair Witch and Open Water as ultra low budget horror with a USP that works but £45 is misleading.  Still, looking at the skills on display on this site if the right idea came along and you all worked for a quid each it would be possible to make something truly class for very little money, albeit utilising people’s valuable time and skills, which the Colin filmmakers don’t seem to factored into their budget!!!